Emmanuel Adeniyi
Biographic Data
| ID | 168255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emmanuel Adeniyi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emmanuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Adeniyi |
| SIGNATURE | ADENIYI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Federal University Oye Ekiti |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2517-3333 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From tactical objects to testimonial subjects: Chibok schoolgirls, trauma and narrative agency in Edna O’Brien’s Girl
The 2014 abduction of Chibok teenage girls from their school in Northeastern Nigeria by Boko Haram insurgents attracted global attention. A few years after the incident, the celebrated Irish writer, Edna O’Brien, visited the country to confer with some of the schoolgirls who escaped from the captivity of the Islamic extremists. Her findings resulted in the publication of Girl (2019) which chronicles the jihadists’ use of terror as a panopticon to…
Negotiating boundaries through reality shows: A multimodal study of Big Brother Naija
The initial reaction to the introduction of Big Brother Naija (BBN) is a moral panic, which is symptomatic of the belief that the show challenges social, moral, religious, and cultural standards, thereby negotiating existing boundaries. Although there is a moral panic about the show, while some studies have established that the attitude towards it is justifiable, little is known about the strategies (deliberate or not) used in negotiating existin…
This Kind Life, E Tire Me: Nigerian Music Industry, Afro-Depression Genre and Phenomenality in Omah Lay’s, MohBad’s Selected Songs
The Weeping Earth: Entangled Humanism, Precarity, and Imaginaries in African Eco-Poetry
The ecological visions of two African poets and their portrayal of the precarious condition of the environment in Africa are discussed in this article. Their nostalgic reflections on the idyllic image of the continent before anthropogenic activities degraded its fertile greenery also received major attention. Zakari Musa’s Elegy for the Earth (2020) and John Ngong’s The Tears of the Earth (2019) are critically analysed to expound the poets’ tempo…
Africa is dying and no one gives a damn: Combating colonial historiography with revisionism, temporality in Tade Ipadeola’sThe Sahara Testaments
The colonial historiography of Africa renders the continent historyless, oriental, and primitive. This cultural misrepresentation of Africa has dominated Western imagination and influenced the relationship of the West with Africa for a number of decades, while traces of this prejudice still subsist till now. Like other Africanist writings that repudiate jaundiced colonial African historiography, Tade Ipadeola’s The Sahara Testaments (2012) offers…
Towards the systematisation of African ways of knowing: Neocolonial hegemony, theory development and cognitive imperialism in African studies
This study proposes African ways of knowing as viable alternatives to Western theories, and demonstrates how Indigenous African epistemologies can be systematised for critical analysis of cultural productions. It builds on the argument that knowledge production in and about Africa should begin to utilise local frameworks to reflect African cultural specificities and instantiate how self-generational concepts from African cultures can be intellect…
Language, Literature and the Environment: Eco-Criticism from the African Perspectives
The oversubscription to anthropocentric cosmology which places humanity at the centre of the biosphere and relegates nature to the periphery of human-environment interactions has been pilloried in
Rethinking African Ecocriticism Beyond Regional Boundaries: Corporate Capitalism, Global Periphery and Subalternity in Nigerian Novels
This article interrogates the epistemological grounding of African ecocriticism and the semantic knowledge of the label in global and Africa-centred eco-critical discourse. Drawing on important insights associated with postcolonial (eco-critical) theory, it contends that the label triggers local-global dichotomy and crises of taxonomy, identity and belonging, since it arguably constructs the image of otherness for environmental criticism in Afric…
Nigerian Afrobeats, the Irony of Belonging and Here–Elsewhere Dialectics
This article reports on a study that examined the reflective experiences of a few Nigerian Afrobeats artistes on irregular migration and identified overlapping contradictory impulses in the Nigerian migration discourse (NMD). Ten song texts of eight of these Afrobeats artistes were purposively deconstructed to evince the conception of irregular migration as a discursive formation and musical argument. Deconstructive paradigm helped to determine t…
European bays of hope’: Trans-Mediterranean fatalities and African migration crisis in selected migritude poems
This article discusses the tragic deaths of African migrants on the Mediterranean Sea, especially the 2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck where close to 400 African migrants drowned. Apart from the Lampedusa tragedy, other migrant shipwrecks occurred in Malta in 2007 and 2014; Mediterranean in 2009, 2011, and 2015; Libya in 2009, 2014, and 2015; Catania in 2015 as well as Crotone in 2015, leaving thousands of Africans fleeing privation, violence and…
We're now the Walking Dead: Predatory Policing, Youth Agency and Framing in Nigeria's #EndSars Social Activism
The #EndSARS protests swept through Nigeria in October 2020 providing opportunities for Nigerian youths to demonstrate against police violence, poor governance and daunting socio-economic challenges plaguing their country. Drawing on the protesters' collective sentiments on Twitter, this article interrogates youth agency, ethics of force in policing and collective action of #EndSARS protest actors against predatory policing. It examines the deplo…
Dispersion of the Yorùbá to the Americas: A Fatalist Hermeneutics of Orí in the Yorùbá Cosmos – Reading from Tutuoba: Salem’s Black Shango Slave Queen
Studies in African Diaspora ofen privilege the transatlantic slavery, Columbus’ discovery of the New World, and African cultural codes in the Americas. To expand the scope of the studies, this article examines the metaphysical and ontological questions on the enslavement of the Yorùbá – an African ethno-nation whose members were condemned to slavery and servitude in the Americas during the inglorious transatlantic slave trade. I used metaphysical…
Ṣàngó’s Incest, Oxala’s Equanimity and the Permanence of African Myth-Legends in Atlantic Yorùbá Dramaturgy
This article discusses the permanence of Yorùbá myth-legends in Atlantic Yorùbá dramaturgy. The dramaturgy is conceived as a genre of Atlantic Yorùbá literature produced by the scions of Yorùbá slaves in the New World and some òrìṣà worshippers in the Americas who claim an affiliative relationship with continental Yorùbá. I argue in favour of a myth-legend taxonomy of oral prose narratives as against the Western classification of traditional tale…
East African Literature and the Gandasation of Metropolitan Language – Reading from Jennifer Makumbi’s Kintu
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is, without doubt, one of the finest literary writers to have come out of East Africa. The Ugandan has succeeded in writing herself into global reckoning by telling a completely absorbing and canon-worthy epic. Her creative impulse is compelling, considering her narration of a riveting multi-layered historiography of (B)-Uganda nation in her debut novel, Kintu. With her unique style of story-telling and intelligent use …
Life Writings, Autobiographical Subjects: Exploring Colonial Narratives and Anti-Memory in African Freedom Fighters’ Texts
This article attempts to give voice to freedom fighters who died during the struggle for independence in Africa. Due to their untimely deaths, they could not self-narrate their encounters with colonial subjectivity. Taking cues from Patrice Lumumba and Steve Biko, it argues that the unlikely documents of these nationalists can be (re)constructed as autobiographies by reawakening their muted self and deploying them as anti-memory to de-centre colo…
Who Nigeria Epp: From muse to text, neo-Marxist appeal and alter/native canonicity of two Nigerian poets
This article examines Nigeria as a space where the hopes and aspirations of most of its citizens are occluded owing to the rapacity of individuals who masquerade as leaders in a country once projected as the bastion of the ‘Black man'11 This is a satiric misspelling of help common among social media users in Nigeria.. Tayo Olafioye's The Parliament of Idiots: Tryst of the Sinators and Femi Fatoba's They Said I Abused the Government are examined a…
Nigerian Afrobeats and Religious Stereotypes: Pushing the Boundaries of a Music Genre Beyond theLocus of Libertinism
(2020). Nigerian Afrobeats and Religious Stereotypes: Pushing the Boundaries of a Music Genre Beyond the Locus of Libertinism. Contemporary Music Review: Vol. 39, Popular Music in Nigeria: Language, Context and Milieu, pp. 59-90
Ancestral Memories, Ritual Archives and the Anatomisation of Yorubaisms in Nicolás Guillén’s Poetics
In view of the valorisation of Yorùbá cultural elements in the poetry of the Atlantic Yorùbá poets, it has been observed that the poets often use enormous continental Yorùbá cultural resources in their creative explorations. This is achieved through the retentive agencies of oral traditions, history and instinct employed by the poets to assert their Yorùbá cultural heritage and create a unique identity for themselves amidst the labyrinth of Ameri…
We're now the Walking Dead: Predatory Policing, Youth Agency and Framing in Nigeria's #EndSars Social Activism
The #EndSARS protests swept through Nigeria in October 2020 providing opportunities for Nigerian youths to demonstrate against police violence, poor governance and daunting socio-economic challenges plaguing their country. Drawing on the protesters' collective sentiments on Twitter, this article interrogates youth agency, ethics of force in policing and collective action of #EndSARS protest actors against predatory policing. It examines the deplo…
Nigerian Afrobeats and Religious Stereotypes: Pushing the Boundaries of a Music Genre Beyond theLocus of Libertinism
(2020). Nigerian Afrobeats and Religious Stereotypes: Pushing the Boundaries of a Music Genre Beyond the Locus of Libertinism. Contemporary Music Review: Vol. 39, Popular Music in Nigeria: Language, Context and Milieu, pp. 59-90
The Weeping Earth: Entangled Humanism, Precarity, and Imaginaries in African Eco-Poetry
The ecological visions of two African poets and their portrayal of the precarious condition of the environment in Africa are discussed in this article. Their nostalgic reflections on the idyllic image of the continent before anthropogenic activities degraded its fertile greenery also received major attention. Zakari Musa’s Elegy for the Earth (2020) and John Ngong’s The Tears of the Earth (2019) are critically analysed to expound the poets’ tempo…
European bays of hope’: Trans-Mediterranean fatalities and African migration crisis in selected migritude poems
This article discusses the tragic deaths of African migrants on the Mediterranean Sea, especially the 2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck where close to 400 African migrants drowned. Apart from the Lampedusa tragedy, other migrant shipwrecks occurred in Malta in 2007 and 2014; Mediterranean in 2009, 2011, and 2015; Libya in 2009, 2014, and 2015; Catania in 2015 as well as Crotone in 2015, leaving thousands of Africans fleeing privation, violence and…
East African Literature and the Gandasation of Metropolitan Language – Reading from Jennifer Makumbi’s Kintu
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is, without doubt, one of the finest literary writers to have come out of East Africa. The Ugandan has succeeded in writing herself into global reckoning by telling a completely absorbing and canon-worthy epic. Her creative impulse is compelling, considering her narration of a riveting multi-layered historiography of (B)-Uganda nation in her debut novel, Kintu. With her unique style of story-telling and intelligent use …
Life Writings, Autobiographical Subjects: Exploring Colonial Narratives and Anti-Memory in African Freedom Fighters’ Texts
This article attempts to give voice to freedom fighters who died during the struggle for independence in Africa. Due to their untimely deaths, they could not self-narrate their encounters with colonial subjectivity. Taking cues from Patrice Lumumba and Steve Biko, it argues that the unlikely documents of these nationalists can be (re)constructed as autobiographies by reawakening their muted self and deploying them as anti-memory to de-centre colo…
Who Nigeria Epp: From muse to text, neo-Marxist appeal and alter/native canonicity of two Nigerian poets
This article examines Nigeria as a space where the hopes and aspirations of most of its citizens are occluded owing to the rapacity of individuals who masquerade as leaders in a country once projected as the bastion of the ‘Black man'11 This is a satiric misspelling of help common among social media users in Nigeria.. Tayo Olafioye's The Parliament of Idiots: Tryst of the Sinators and Femi Fatoba's They Said I Abused the Government are examined a…
Ancestral Memories, Ritual Archives and the Anatomisation of Yorubaisms in Nicolás Guillén’s Poetics
In view of the valorisation of Yorùbá cultural elements in the poetry of the Atlantic Yorùbá poets, it has been observed that the poets often use enormous continental Yorùbá cultural resources in their creative explorations. This is achieved through the retentive agencies of oral traditions, history and instinct employed by the poets to assert their Yorùbá cultural heritage and create a unique identity for themselves amidst the labyrinth of Ameri…
Nigerian Afrobeats and Religious Stereotypes: Pushing the Boundaries of a Music Genre Beyond theLocus of Libertinism
(2020). Nigerian Afrobeats and Religious Stereotypes: Pushing the Boundaries of a Music Genre Beyond the Locus of Libertinism. Contemporary Music Review: Vol. 39, Popular Music in Nigeria: Language, Context and Milieu, pp. 59-90
Dispersion of the Yorùbá to the Americas: A Fatalist Hermeneutics of Orí in the Yorùbá Cosmos – Reading from Tutuoba: Salem’s Black Shango Slave Queen
Studies in African Diaspora ofen privilege the transatlantic slavery, Columbus’ discovery of the New World, and African cultural codes in the Americas. To expand the scope of the studies, this article examines the metaphysical and ontological questions on the enslavement of the Yorùbá – an African ethno-nation whose members were condemned to slavery and servitude in the Americas during the inglorious transatlantic slave trade. I used metaphysical…
Ṣàngó’s Incest, Oxala’s Equanimity and the Permanence of African Myth-Legends in Atlantic Yorùbá Dramaturgy
This article discusses the permanence of Yorùbá myth-legends in Atlantic Yorùbá dramaturgy. The dramaturgy is conceived as a genre of Atlantic Yorùbá literature produced by the scions of Yorùbá slaves in the New World and some òrìṣà worshippers in the Americas who claim an affiliative relationship with continental Yorùbá. I argue in favour of a myth-legend taxonomy of oral prose narratives as against the Western classification of traditional tale…
East African Literature and the Gandasation of Metropolitan Language – Reading from Jennifer Makumbi’s Kintu
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is, without doubt, one of the finest literary writers to have come out of East Africa. The Ugandan has succeeded in writing herself into global reckoning by telling a completely absorbing and canon-worthy epic. Her creative impulse is compelling, considering her narration of a riveting multi-layered historiography of (B)-Uganda nation in her debut novel, Kintu. With her unique style of story-telling and intelligent use …
Life Writings, Autobiographical Subjects: Exploring Colonial Narratives and Anti-Memory in African Freedom Fighters’ Texts
This article attempts to give voice to freedom fighters who died during the struggle for independence in Africa. Due to their untimely deaths, they could not self-narrate their encounters with colonial subjectivity. Taking cues from Patrice Lumumba and Steve Biko, it argues that the unlikely documents of these nationalists can be (re)constructed as autobiographies by reawakening their muted self and deploying them as anti-memory to de-centre colo…
Who Nigeria Epp: From muse to text, neo-Marxist appeal and alter/native canonicity of two Nigerian poets
This article examines Nigeria as a space where the hopes and aspirations of most of its citizens are occluded owing to the rapacity of individuals who masquerade as leaders in a country once projected as the bastion of the ‘Black man'11 This is a satiric misspelling of help common among social media users in Nigeria.. Tayo Olafioye's The Parliament of Idiots: Tryst of the Sinators and Femi Fatoba's They Said I Abused the Government are examined a…
Nigerian Afrobeats, the Irony of Belonging and Here–Elsewhere Dialectics
This article reports on a study that examined the reflective experiences of a few Nigerian Afrobeats artistes on irregular migration and identified overlapping contradictory impulses in the Nigerian migration discourse (NMD). Ten song texts of eight of these Afrobeats artistes were purposively deconstructed to evince the conception of irregular migration as a discursive formation and musical argument. Deconstructive paradigm helped to determine t…
European bays of hope’: Trans-Mediterranean fatalities and African migration crisis in selected migritude poems
This article discusses the tragic deaths of African migrants on the Mediterranean Sea, especially the 2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck where close to 400 African migrants drowned. Apart from the Lampedusa tragedy, other migrant shipwrecks occurred in Malta in 2007 and 2014; Mediterranean in 2009, 2011, and 2015; Libya in 2009, 2014, and 2015; Catania in 2015 as well as Crotone in 2015, leaving thousands of Africans fleeing privation, violence and…
We're now the Walking Dead: Predatory Policing, Youth Agency and Framing in Nigeria's #EndSars Social Activism
The #EndSARS protests swept through Nigeria in October 2020 providing opportunities for Nigerian youths to demonstrate against police violence, poor governance and daunting socio-economic challenges plaguing their country. Drawing on the protesters' collective sentiments on Twitter, this article interrogates youth agency, ethics of force in policing and collective action of #EndSARS protest actors against predatory policing. It examines the deplo…
Language, Literature and the Environment: Eco-Criticism from the African Perspectives
The oversubscription to anthropocentric cosmology which places humanity at the centre of the biosphere and relegates nature to the periphery of human-environment interactions has been pilloried in
Rethinking African Ecocriticism Beyond Regional Boundaries: Corporate Capitalism, Global Periphery and Subalternity in Nigerian Novels
This article interrogates the epistemological grounding of African ecocriticism and the semantic knowledge of the label in global and Africa-centred eco-critical discourse. Drawing on important insights associated with postcolonial (eco-critical) theory, it contends that the label triggers local-global dichotomy and crises of taxonomy, identity and belonging, since it arguably constructs the image of otherness for environmental criticism in Afric…
The Weeping Earth: Entangled Humanism, Precarity, and Imaginaries in African Eco-Poetry
The ecological visions of two African poets and their portrayal of the precarious condition of the environment in Africa are discussed in this article. Their nostalgic reflections on the idyllic image of the continent before anthropogenic activities degraded its fertile greenery also received major attention. Zakari Musa’s Elegy for the Earth (2020) and John Ngong’s The Tears of the Earth (2019) are critically analysed to expound the poets’ tempo…
Africa is dying and no one gives a damn: Combating colonial historiography with revisionism, temporality in Tade Ipadeola’sThe Sahara Testaments
The colonial historiography of Africa renders the continent historyless, oriental, and primitive. This cultural misrepresentation of Africa has dominated Western imagination and influenced the relationship of the West with Africa for a number of decades, while traces of this prejudice still subsist till now. Like other Africanist writings that repudiate jaundiced colonial African historiography, Tade Ipadeola’s The Sahara Testaments (2012) offers…
Towards the systematisation of African ways of knowing: Neocolonial hegemony, theory development and cognitive imperialism in African studies
This study proposes African ways of knowing as viable alternatives to Western theories, and demonstrates how Indigenous African epistemologies can be systematised for critical analysis of cultural productions. It builds on the argument that knowledge production in and about Africa should begin to utilise local frameworks to reflect African cultural specificities and instantiate how self-generational concepts from African cultures can be intellect…
Negotiating boundaries through reality shows: A multimodal study of Big Brother Naija
The initial reaction to the introduction of Big Brother Naija (BBN) is a moral panic, which is symptomatic of the belief that the show challenges social, moral, religious, and cultural standards, thereby negotiating existing boundaries. Although there is a moral panic about the show, while some studies have established that the attitude towards it is justifiable, little is known about the strategies (deliberate or not) used in negotiating existin…
This Kind Life, E Tire Me: Nigerian Music Industry, Afro-Depression Genre and Phenomenality in Omah Lay’s, MohBad’s Selected Songs
From tactical objects to testimonial subjects: Chibok schoolgirls, trauma and narrative agency in Edna O’Brien’s Girl
The 2014 abduction of Chibok teenage girls from their school in Northeastern Nigeria by Boko Haram insurgents attracted global attention. A few years after the incident, the celebrated Irish writer, Edna O’Brien, visited the country to confer with some of the schoolgirls who escaped from the captivity of the Islamic extremists. Her findings resulted in the publication of Girl (2019) which chronicles the jihadists’ use of terror as a panopticon to…
Sociology (13 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Literature (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · History (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works)